On June 29, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Mesa Verde National Park, the first national park consciously designed to "preserve the works of man.” Decades later, Mesa Verde remains one of the most spectacular parks anywhere in the world. With over 52,000 acres, it preserves more than 4,500 archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, and over 3 million objects in the park’s research collection. Mesa Verde has international status as both a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve.
Recently, Mesa Verde National Park received two Save America's Treasures grants: a $356,350 grant to preserve the archaeological collection and a $1.5 million grant to conserve park cliff dwellings.
Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. It has 150 rooms, plus an additional 75 open areas. Twenty-one of the rooms are kivas, and 25 to 30 rooms have residential features. The number of Ancestral Puebloans living in Cliff Palace at any one time was 100 to 120.
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